An interview with Richard Heinberg on Peak Oil, The Party Is Over.
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So there you have it. Hydrogen economy existed in the past and still exists to this day. It just isn’t used in cars anymore. Why isn’t hydrogen used? Because it’s not competitive with gasoline price wise for new and very efficient technologies while the old tech is bulky, uneconomical and leads to more CO2 emissions than current fuels. The future holds promise, especially considering the expected decline in oil extraction which would make gasoline much more expensive to produce.
The comparison stands. You need more energy to produce gasoline than you get out of burning it. The same is true for H2. Hydrogen has been used in the past for lighting, cooking and even heating. My home city used hydrogen in that way for 100 years before it was phased out by electricity and natural gas. It was produced by coal gasification. Today hydrogen is made in enormous quantities for use in oil refineries. During shortages of liquid fuels many cars were converted to hydrogen in Europe.
We could label everything “energy carrier” by your definition of gasoline. I am an energy carrier. Guinea pig ****. A noise. A hydrogen economy sounds just as crackpot as cold fusion sounds just as crackpot as harnessing every conceivable sound in the universe and using it to power our automobiles. I’m sure it’s possible, but I highly doubt it will happen.
“Hydrogen (H) is not an energy source, there are no H reserves sitting around beneath the the soil, beneath the rocks that we can tap into the way we tapped into oil. H has to be made, yes it’s often said that H is the most abundant element in the universe. True enough, tons of H on the Sun, there’s tons of H in the methane on Jupiter. Where H is most abundant interestingly enough is in fossil fuels. There’s more H in a gallon of gasoline than in a gallon of of liquid hydrogen!” -R.Heinberg
Were running out of oil. Were running out of natural gas. Were running out of corn. Were running out of food and water. Liars. It is price manipulation. The only thing that is running out is money in the middle class thanks to the greedy assholes.
only capitalist pig nations will truly collapse, some place still use little if none.
umm not! who the **** cant figure out why? lol gimme a break i knew why when i was 14 years old
I’ve heard hydrogen gas is difficult to contain, cause it diffuses through almost anything. There should be something like a hidroaccumulation plant, were wind power surplus raises the water to a tank, from which water is again released down the turbines when energy is becoming scarce. The problem of course would be the price of such miniplant
All “free” energy is suppressed. The big question is why?
heinberg says in this clip that oil is at $50 a barrel, as of july, it’s at $140 a barrel. get ready for the horse and cart. and if you think that it’s just a matter of time before new technology replaces oil, think again, because demand for rare metals and refined silicon for the solar industry is rising just as supplies are beginning to dwindle, and it’s the same story for copper and aluminum. oil has been the lifeblood of industrialization, beginning with whale oil, now it’s come to an end.
I’m a power engineer and I can tell that there’s no way America will make up for fossil fuels with renewables. That role will be reserved to coal. As for what he sais about hydrogen I strongly disagree. Hydrogen storage is 4x more compact and 16x lighter than state of the art batteries. Don’t tell me that mid sized sedans will ever drive on batteries as hydrogen is barely sufficient a carrier. And finally, gasoline is also an energy carrier just like hydrogen…
You are believer jwallbanger. The typical type of optimist who always looks in the direction of white-coats when problems arise. But you don’t have a clue about energy transformation and efficiency and the problem of finite sources in context with steady growth. You are not a scientist.
Please, look at You Tube to “The Air Car” It is an revolution. Made in France. A little bit of energy for thousend miles.
…and for all you trivia buffs, TheArabist aka “elitist POS” didn’t end the conversation here as promised. Hid did indeed “waste more time responding” by instead emailing me privately and posting on my personal comments, but blocked me so I could not reply, proving he only speaks due to an infatuation with his own hot air, and of course to stop being embarrassed by his own stupidity in a public forum. Hopefully you need no further proof that he took the chickenshit highway out of this argument.
blah blah blah i’m not interested in what you learned from your silly self-help books. i go out in the world and kick *** every day, to impress only me and to give back to my WORKING CLASS community full of REAL human beings that went to PUBLIC SCHOOL and somehow ended up buying houses, starting businesses and raising families in spite of the fact that you believe they are hindered. you are POMPOUS. i will never be a phony **** like you and they can put that on my fucking headstone *******.
you bored me first shithead. and real, working class human beings use all the words in the dictionary. self-obsessed stuffed shirts such as yourself need to hear it, because you are the reason those words exist in the first place. that said, go **** your mother you donking raping sucker of satan’s ****. suspect me all you want. i will never be able to care less what you think.
and i’ve never seen your name in print other than the internet, so your calling me a
nobody = pot/kettle 100%.
only a small percentage of our oil came from the middle east in 1973, the embargo was not enough to cause the major supply shocks and price increases that happened. but you know, maybe you should stick to believing what you read in the new york times and hear on NPR, you’ll be happier as a propaganda dumpster. but even you drones are only three meals away from a revolution, you just have to lose your toys and go a little hungry before you stop believing the system acts in your best interest.
You don’t seem to understand, and I doubt you’ll ever try, because you’re better than everyone else and not afraid to say it.
The technology is not “burning coal” making pea soup fogs everywhere, it’s cutting edge chemistry that turns a hydrocarbon rock into a crystal clear, very clean burning fuel. But go ahead and get yourself a good mule instead if you really think we’re talking about using coal like we did a hundred years ago. me and the rest of the rational world will drive by and laugh.
Yeah and where do you get your info? The Sierra Club? Coal fuel is much higher in CO2, but CO2 is a “greenhouse gas” not a pollutant. So go ahead and spew some Al Gore bullshit quotes and ignore that coal fuel is much much lower in real pollution, as in, cancer causing, people killing pollution, not your phony baloney global warming pollution, and that’s a fucking fact *******.
Oh, and one last thing, congratulations on discovering how to overcome the “character limit” after somebody else showed you how. Remember, jwallbanger, it’s all about will to power… Can you raise yourself out of the ignorance of your birth and position to accomplish great things based on merit?
Public schools are a disease. If you can escape from their influence the you are a lucky man. Corporate America doesn’t want you to think for yourself, that is why we have public schools…
Listen, jwallbanger. You bore me. Your use of vuglarity and baseless assertations marks your commentary as suspect at best.
The problem with the internet is that it allows plebs such as yourself the opportunity to post your uninformed drivel at will. Nobody would listen to you in person as you are nobody in person.
Please feel free to curse and rail at me, but from this point forward, I cannot waste any more time responding to you.
US oil production has been declining since 1970 and even at its height was less than 10 million barrels per day and guess what, we don’t consume all that we produce, not we sell it abroad. If we drill in Alaska, some of that oil will go abroad and not be used for US consumption.
US demand for petroleum peaked in 1978 at 18.8million barrels per day, so I doubt we were “still burning american oil for the most part” during the 70s oil crisis.
Yes, yes. The USA is to coal as the ME is to oil. What you don’t seem to be able to comprehend is the environmental impact that our continued use of coal will have. Probably because you are a Republican.
It’s simply not true that US oil companies caused the 70s oil crisis. They may have profited from it, prolonged it, but they were not the cause of it.
